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NO. 1.
PACTS ABOUT THE SOUTH
AFRICAN WAR.
TERMS OF WAR.
An
the
Eyewitness’s Account of
Elands Laagte Fight.
The Highlanders had barely com¬
menced to extend among the boulders
when the summit of the kopje, three
hundred yards in front, crackled witfc
the peculiar report of small bore mus¬
ketry, and our part of the battle had
begun. Men fell here and there, but w€
were no longer a support, but in the
fighting line, and could see the brown
figures of the Manchesters in our right
silhouetted against the sky line. They
were struggling hard against a sheet of
lead. The leading companies of the
Gordons were now in the depression at
the foot of the first kopje, and for a
moment they had cover. It was not un¬
til the summit of the second hillock had
been reached that the real and murder¬
ous effect of .the enemy’s fire was
THE SEAT OF WAR.
In the map the dotted portion shows where the British predominate, and
the ruled portion where the Dntch are superior. In Natal about five-sixths
of the whites ara British. The white portion of the map is mostly owned
by England but ti e people are mostly black.
*\H r ' '
Commander of the Eritish forces in South Africa.
proved. For a time to show on tnc s^y
line was to be hit. Man after man with¬
ered in the attempt, but men pressed
up, and a dismounted troop of Imperial
Light Horse was working along on the
right of the Manchesters.
Many times foiled in places, driven
back, yet righting themselves, and
steadily pushing forward, the troops on
the summit pushed on. The first kopje
was already a shambles. Men had fal¬
len fast, but the weight of numbers
carried our troops on.
It had ceased to be a general’s bat¬
tle; everything depended on company,
and even on section, commanders, and
gallantly the officers and non-commis¬
sioned officers did their work. If the
men wavered and stuck under cover,
the officers sacrificed themselves to fur¬
nish an example. The fighting on the
ridge summit was of this description;
it is impossible to give It in detail.
The enemy stood, to their pojsitions
4
THE REALM
with a grim persistency which. was
magnificent, and their stand at the last
kopje above their camp and laager was
one of the finest pieces of fighting re¬
corded in modern wars. In spite of the
united attack of the storming regi¬
ments, training their guns at point
range and discharging the magazines,
they checked the advance for half an
hour.
It was now 6 o’clock. There was only
half an hour’s more light, and shat¬
tered battalions were lying around the
kopje where the Dutch were making
their final stand.
Our bugles rang out the advance, and
other buglers took up the call. Fixed
bayonets gleamed amid the boulders
through the fading light, and the men
sprang up to the well known notes—
sprang up to fall like rabbits.
Again and again sounded the call.
Somehow I found myself with a com¬
pany of the Devons. A fence stopped
us. We fell or threw ourselves over it.
Still sounded the call.
The Highlanders were shouting above.
Cheering madly, we were over a breast¬
work, and passed a quick firing gun
still smoking. A Dutchman at my feet
was calling for mercy. We were in—
were there. Some one shouted “Remem¬
ber Majuba!” Over the brow there was
the sound of skirling pipes. The main
kopje was taken.
There was still firing below. With
“Majuba” still on their lips, our men
dashed forward to carry the laager
with bayonets. The officers held them
back, and a voice in command said,
“Cease fire.”
Again the bugle rang out, and a
white handkerchief fluttered at the end
of a rifle. The enemy had surrendered,
but the main remnant were pouring
over the hillside, where our cavalry
pounced upon them.
It was 6:30 o’clock. I had just time
to look ai’ound the laager below the
hillside, strewn with dead and wound¬
ed, the Dutch and German gunners be¬
ing distinguishable by their brown uni¬
form. They had fought their guns
splendidly. Two of their guns I saw
with “Maxim-Nordenfeldt” and the di¬
rection in English on the carriages. I
had to leave at once, as it was already
night, and we were twenty miles from
the telegraph—London Times.
AFTER THE BATTLE.
British and Boers Join in Caring for
the Wounded.
As the fighting did not finish until
after nightfall, it was necessary for the
men to bivouac on the field. This they
did cheerfully, and in an orderly man¬
ner, despite a soaking downfall and the
chilling cold. From the moment of the
“Cease firing,” both British and Boers
fraternized in the care of the wound¬
ed. The stretchers were found to be
missing in the confusion necessarily
consequent on an attack against mod¬
ern weapons, and great labor was ex¬
perienced in moving the wounded men
from among and behind the rocks and
down the slippery hillsides. But every
one worked loyally, and the staff in
Ladysmith labored so effectively that,
though the first doolies, or native
stretchers, only arrived at midnight,
special trains were ready throughout
the night to convey the wounded to the
hospital, and with the first stroke of
dawn sufficient doolies were waiting
to convey every man.
The Red Cross workers attached to
the Boer force were also ready, and it
was pleasant to see the mutual good
feeling. The British soldiers treated
the Boer wounded as solicitously as
their own, and round one of the few
camp fires which were lighted I saw
all the best places occupied by the en¬
emy’s wounded prisoners. Armed Boers
even appeared with the object of
searching for their wounded. They
were allowed to pass freely about the
hill, and gave no sign of any desire to
abuse the privilege. They talked free¬
ly and good-humoredly with our sol¬
diers, and then, having fulfilled their
mission, disappeared in the darkness.—
London Mail.
NED AND A BURGLAR.
# 1D Morton was the
success of the
evening. Every
one said so. In the
tableaux he had
taken the part of
a young burglar,
one of the soft-
*" hearted kind
which you sometimes read of in story
books, but which are rarely to be met
with in real life.
Ned’s makeup and costume were
capital. His father laughingly told
him that he would deceive a real bur¬
glar himself. He had a dark lantern,
a black mask, and an old pistol of bis
father’s which looked very dangerous,
although it was now so rusty and bat¬
tered as to be entirely useless. After
the performance was over and Ned
had received the hearty congratula¬
tions of his friends, and especially the
praise of a certain young lady, which
made him feel supremely happy, he
went up to his room and flung himself
dowm in an easy chair to think over
the events of the evening. He must
have dozed as he sat there, for sud¬
denly he was aroused by hearing the
library clock striking twelve in slow,
solemn tones.
“Jiminy!” muttered Ned, “it’s about
time I was getting to bed!” Then it
suddenly dawned on him that he was
fearfully hungry. He had been so ex¬
cited getting ready for the tableaux
that he had scarcely eaten any dinner
at all, and now the poor fellow felt
nearly starved.
“I’ve got to have something to eat,
that’s certain!” said Ned to himself,
and then he caught sight of the mask
and dark lantern on the floor beside
him, and at that a queer idea came
into his mind which made him chuckle
aloud. Quickly he slipped on the
mask, stuck the pistol in his belt, and
picking up the dark lantern he crept
out of his room and started down
stairs.
“Cricky!” he laughed to himself, “I’m
the real article this time, for I’m going
to steal half a pumpkin pie!” But
Ned hadn’t got more than half way
down stairs before his chuckles turned
to shicers. Playing burglar at twelve
o’clock at night in a great, dark, silent
house was just a little bit “spooky!”
And then the stairs would squeak so
alarmingly, despite Ned’s efforts not
to make a noise.
As he reached the parlor floor he
fancied he saw a stream of light from
the dining room, and at the same time
he was conscious of a queer, grinding,
rasping noise coming faintly from the
same direction. Ned began to feel
frightened, be didn’t know just why,
and he paused a moment in the hall.
Then lie squared his shoulders, and.
grasping his pistol in his right Land,
he went for the dining room.
“Gee! I mustn’t play the baby act,”
he muttered, “just because I hear an
old rat gnawing at a hole in the floor.
I’m fourteen years old; I'm no kid!”
But the sight that met his eyes as he
stood on the threshold of the dining
room was enough to startle a much
older fellow than Ned. A man was
bending over the buffet and filing the
look of the drawer in which was kept
the table silver. He too, had a dark
lantern and by his side lay a little
black mask. Some ten feet away from
him lay a pistol, its bright metal re¬
flecting the light from the dark lan¬
tern. For a full minute Ned stood
there as though turned to stone. Then
the man happened to look up and he
sprang to his feet with a hoarse cry.
It seemed to Ned as though it were
all a dreadful nightmare. He seemed
to have lost the power to move or to
speak. He tried to call, but no sound
came from his throat.
The burglar—for such he was—in¬
stead of going for Ned, sat down in a
chair and gave vent to a low, sup¬
pressed chuckle.
“Well, if this don’t beat all!” be
croaked hoarsely. “To think of two
gents of our profesh striking the same
’ouse on the identical same night!”
And then be laughed some more.
Then it dawned on Ned that with his
disguise this man had actually taken
him for a real burglar. This gave him
courage. “I say,” said the man when
be had recovered from his laughter,
“ ’Ave yer bin up stairs?”
Ned nodded his bead, not daring to
speak.
“H’m,” muttered the man. “Did yer
get any walubles?”
Before Ned could answer the man
gave a smothered exclamation and,
reaching down, he picked up a sheet
of paper from the floor. It was a pro¬
gram of the evening’s entertainment.
“Mr. Ned Morton as the Good Burg¬
lar,” the man read, and in an instant
he had taken in tne whole situation.
With a savage oath he sprang at Ned,
and then he paused in dismay, for he
was looking straight down the barrel
of a pistol. The burglar looked toward
bis own weapon and seemed to be
measuring the distance with his eye.
“No you don’t,” said Ned who had
suddenly found his voice. “Move and
I’ll shoot. Do you see that bell on the
table there? Well, ring it.”
For an instant the man hesitated,
but be was a prudent rascal, who pre¬
ferred capture to being shot, so he
picked up the dinner bell and rang it.
Clang! clang! clang! The noise went
echoing through the quiet bouse and
presently was beard a wild scuffle and
scramble overhead, and then Mr. Mor¬
ton and Ned’s grown up brother ap¬
peared in the doorway.
“Father!” cried Ned, in a voice that
trembled in spite of him. “I’ve caught
a burglar and I wish you would go for
a policeman!”
“Ned!” said bis father, after the
burglar had been marched off between
two stalwart policemen, and each
member of the family had shaken
hands with him, .end his mother had
kissed him and cried over him, “Ned,
I thought you very good in the role
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of a burglar, bnt I think you play the
part of the hero even better. My boy,
[’in proud of you!”
The Difference.
Wee Isabella is such a pet
At school among the rest!
“The baby!” Lou and Charlie say
Who love her quite the best.
They show her how to string her beads
And weave her paper mat.
They laugh at all her cunning ways,
And kiss her fingers fat.
At noon they lift her from her chair,
And help her with her things.
They button up her little coat,
And tie her bonnet-strings.
:he purpose of grinding their food 'The
natives assert that it is possible to tell
the age of a crocodile by the number
if stones in its stomach, for they swal¬
low one each year. In point of fact,
15 stones have been found in the stom-
ich of a crocodile 12 feet long, whereas
:he average number for younger ones
varies between four and eight. Sc
;ays Mr. Voltkow, who has been study-
ng this matter for several years.
Governess—Come, Ethel, it’s time for
rood little girls to be in bed.
Ethel—Yeth, MiVh Morgan; but you
mow I have been naughty to-day.
TIGHT RINGS.
May Be Easily Removed By a Very
Simple Process.
Most girls who have baby rings
have had trouble in removing them
from their fingers.
“There is really no necessity for all
this ado about removing a tight ring,”
said a well-known jeweler. “In that,
as in everything else, the secret of
success lies in knowing how to do it.
Here is a recipe that I have found
unfailing for removing a tight ring,
and there is no painful surgical opera-
Shooting a Waterspout.
Quite recently a waterspout was seen
sweeping toward the town of Hen¬
nessey, Oklahoma, which for the
third time this year has been saved
from destruction by artificial means.
One of the rough riders in the neigii-
Dorhood bought four old cannons, and
the local governing body employs a
man to attend them. When a water¬
spout or cyclone appears on the liori-
>n, he mounts his horse and rides to
me of the cannon, which are placed
m the outskirts of the town, one on
>ach side. The cannon is loaded with
-alt and fired at a fairly good range pi¬
rn the whirling black mass that threat-
med the town with destruction. The
jity is protected by this means at a
xifling expense, and so far it has al¬
ways worked satisfactorily.
The more self is indulged the more it
iemands, and therefore of all girls the
aaost selfish are the most discontented.
Ten Pins at Home.
As the evenings grow longer the
young folks may like to play a game
at home which requires some activity,
and a new with smell ten pins that can
be set up in almost any room in the
house with the aid of a board upon
which two narrow cleats have been
tia'lcd will supply more recreation than
Blind Woman’s Buff for 1900. The Blind Man was Retired in 1899.
They watch and tend and talk to her
Just like a doll alive.
Because, you see, she’s only four,
And they are nearly five.
—Margaret Johnson in Youths’ Com¬
panion.
Composition on Breathing.
A boy 14 years old, who was told to
write all he'could about breathing in a
composition, handed in the following:
“Breath is made of air. We breathe
with our lungs, our lights, our liver
and kidneys. If it wasn’t for our
breath we would die when we sleep.
Our breath keeps the life a-going
through our nose when we are asleep.
Boys that stay in a room all day should
not breathe. They should wait until
they get outdoors. Girls kill the breath
with corsets and squeeze the diagram.
Girls can’t holler or run like boys be¬
cause because their diagram is
squeezed too much. If I was a girl
[’d rather be a boy so I can run and
holler and have a great big diagram.”
Crocodiles Eat Stones.
Crocodiles, like ostriches, swallow
pebbles and small stones, which serve
•.ion involved either: Thread a needle
flat in the eye, using thread that is
strong but not too coarse. Then pass
the head of the needle under the ring.
Care, of course, must be used in this,
and it would be better to soap the
needle before beginning. The needle
having been passed through, pull the
thread through a few inches toward
the hand—so.” By this time the jeweler
had passed the needle and thread un¬
der the ring on his own finger, and
was prepared to illustrate the little
lecture. “Wrap the long end of the
thread tightly and regularly around
the finger toward the nail in this man¬
ner. Then take hold of the short end
and unwind it—so. The thread, thus
pressing against the ring, will gradu¬
ally remove it, however tight, or
swollen the finger.”
Elis baby talked when eight months
old.
And so he blew his horn;
ind yet the Bible says Job cussed
The day that he was born.
Is at first thought. The pins should not
be more than eight inches high and
[Ten Pins at Home.]
the balls about the size of a baseball.
A lamp should be placed so that it
throws a light on the pins, and along
the alley. This can be done with a
simply constructed shade.
Parents may be glad to know that
after a few games of ten pins at home
in the evening the young folks will re¬
tire to sound sleep, for the game gives
Just activity enough for proper exercise.
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DAISY’S FUN.
Her Receipt For Having a Good Time
All By Yourself.
As soon as I have time, said Miss
Daisy, as reported in the Chicago Rec¬
ord, seating herself in her little red
chair, a very much soiled doily in
hand, I’m going to tell every person
I know how to enjoy theirselves.
It’s as easy. You must only have
fun. That’s all.
To have fun you’ve got to have ear¬
rings and things, and if you liaveffit
got ’em, make ’em!
I do. I have nine essquisite earrings
that I made myself onten beads and
things, and I’m going to make some
more soon.
If you can’t be took to a matinee
make a matinee yourself, and if you
can’t wear your mamma’s organdies,
wear Mena’s aperuns tied on sort of
loose in the back, so’s they’ll drag
good.
I make matinees and picnics and
going-ridings and Sunny-schools and
every mortil thing.
Once I made a barber shop, and it
was jest ezzackly like a real one.
Mamma made me a big roily man
outen a quilt, and tied papa’s old foot¬
ball on for a head. Then I put him in
a big chair and soap-sudded him and
shaved him with a knife all day. On¬
ly he was bald. But I used four bot¬
tles of hair colic on him, and that
was most as much fun as cutting Lis
hair.
Then the Sunday school. I had
Gran, an’ her canary bird and the
goldfish and mamma’s statuaries of
Beenus and Paulbenearus for sclio'ars
and we all enjoyed ourselves.
Picnics are fun, too, but they are
longer to make. First you must get
an apple—the same as when you go to
play butcher shop—and a cooky, and
outen of ’em rnalr’ ^ananas and pic-
kies and cakes and sardines. Then
get a match box and pack ’em in and
have plenty of bananas made. Then
when the lunching is all ready put on
an organdy or some other grown-up
thing and go to the picnic on the rock¬
ing-chair street car. You know how to
make that, of course. Wear earrings
and a shawl and a pairsole, ’cause
when you get to the picnic it will
rain awful and you must eat lunching
with the pairsole up. Then, when
you’re just wet as you can be, you
must go under a tree to get dry. That’s
the sofa or the hogmany table. Then
when you’re all dry and snugly again,
eat a few more banans and go borne
in the rocking-chair horse car.
But a circus. Oh! You must be a
riding lady in a long dress and sit on
the side of a big trunk covered with
the red table cloth and have pink pa¬
per on your cheeks for paint. Then
sometimes 1 play I’m the dancing¬
legged lady, with my legs going right
down into the ends of my toes, but
they don’t, very good. Where do danc¬
ing-legged ladies live? I never saw one
on the street, and I’ve looked and
looked. I asked Uncle John if they
were angels, and he said no, they on¬
ly played angels. And the clownd, too.
I never saw him on the street. I sup¬
pose he’s so white lie’s ’fraid lie’ll get
soiled if he comes out. I don’t see how
he can enjoy himself.
Boys’ most fun is when they go skat¬
ing and freeze their ears and have to
have snow rubbed into them to keep
them from spoiling.
Once a boy who used to run away
from school and go fishing caught so
many fish he broke his arm carrying
them home, and his ma gave him ten
cents a pound for them. Then when
he got bigger he could paint picksures
of fishes so good they were smelly,
and now he is an arterist and has an
artery of his own, and makes fish to
sell for an awful lot of money. Papa
says that’s because he was a bad boy
and run away from school instead of
being good and learning how to work
in an office all day. Now he just sells
fish picksures.
In the summer I have essquisite
times playing garden. I go over in the
lot where that lady keeps her goat
and I name all tlie white flowers Lily,
all the pink ones Rose, and all the
blue ones Violet. But the most ones
are yellow ones and I just call ’em
all darling, so’s not to hurt their feel¬
ings. I charge a pin for enough flow¬
ers to fill the jodrunaire, and I have
seven pins in Gran’s cushion that I
made that way last summer. They’re
empty-lot flowers, but they’re essquis¬
ite.
If you take the little fire shovel and
dig all nice around an empty-lot flow¬
er and pour three catchup bottles of
water onto it, it will grow as tall as
you are and have eight bouquets on
top. Alien pick them for the jodrun¬
aire.
Did you ever sprinkle a goat? I did
in the hot time last summer. I sprin¬
kled him every day so’s he could keep
coo! and enjoy hisself. In the hot time
I sprinkled every mortil thing I could.
Gran s canary, the lettuce on Mena’s
Sunday hat to keep it from blitherin’
and mamma’s goldfish.
Then you know the big tree on the
corner? I poured five levery pills bot¬
tles of water on it every day, beside
when T helped the janitor with the
hose. It grew so!
It seems as if there’s so many things
to do a person doesn’t have time to
go a place or do a mortil thing. There’s
so much fun, maybe I’ll not have time
to have it all before I stop being a
little girl. You stop at 8, you know,
and then begin being a big girl, I’m
afraid I’ll cry that day, but, then, may¬
be big girls ’joy theirselves, too!
SLATE PENCILS.
They Are the Product of Complicated
Machinery.
A slate pencil is a very simple af¬
fair, and one would scarcely imagine
the process of its manufacture com¬
plicated. Yet, like many other simple
devices in constant use, it is the re¬
sult of much thought and care, and
a product of complicated machinery.
First, broken pieces of slate are put
into a mortar run by steam, and
crushed into a powder, which is then
bolted in a machine such as is used
in flouring mills. A fine slate flour
results, which is thoroughly mixed in
a large tub with steatite flour and
other materials, the whole making a
stiff dough. The dough is kneaded
by being passed between iron rollers
a couple of times, and is then taken
to a table, where it is made into short
cylinders four or five inches thick,
each containing from eight to ten
pounds of material. Four of these cy¬
linders are placed in a strong iron re¬
tort which has a changeable nozzle,
regulating the size of the pencils.
In the retort the material is sub¬
jected to great hydraulic pressure,
and is thus pushed through the nozzle
in the shape of a long cord. As this
cord comes through it passes over a
knife which cuts it into the desired
lengths. These are laid on boards to
dryland are then placed on sheets of
corrugated zinc. The corrugation pre¬
vents the pencils from warping dur¬
ing the baking process. The baking
is done in a kiln, which is furnished
with pipes filled with superheated
steam. The pencils go from the kiln
to the finishing room, where the ends
are neatly pointed by being held for
an instant under a rapidly revolving
emery wheel, and then to the pack¬
ing room.
Spearing With “Bobs.”
Did you ever take a cork, stick
through it a horseshoe nail, put on the
top of the cork twa or three feathers,
tie a long string around the cork and
then spear for apples or potatoes?
Just try it some time, and see how
proficient and how straight you can
learn to throw the bob in a short time.
The cork keeps the horseshoe nail in
without slipping and the feathers
serve to guide tlie bob through the air.
Natural Snow Balls.
Last winter there was a remarka¬
ble exhibition at Grafton, N. H., ot
the comparatively lare phenomenon of
“snow rollers.” Freshly fallen snow
was rolled by the wind into innumer¬
able cylinders, some of them as large
is a baMpl. w hich dotted the hills.
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THE REALM jg
THE TALK OF BIRDS.
HOW OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS
CARRY ON CONVERSATION.
The Calls by Which They Express
Delight, Surprise, Anger, Distress
and Warning — An Interesting
Study for Young Folk.
Although it is getting late in the sea¬
son for our feathered friends to sing
much, it will pay to remember what
follows for the spring time.
Not their songs—who would try to re¬
peat in words the songs of the hermit
thrush or of the mocking bird?—but
the calls by which the bird’s express
delight, surprise, anger, distress, warn¬
ing, their characteristic notes, makes
what we term Bird Talk, says the Phil¬
adelphia Times.
Some of these sounds seem to be com¬
mon to all birds, as the sweet, twitter¬
ing mothers talk in the nest: some com¬
mon to certain families, as the cheeping
note of the sparrows, and the similar
calls of the orioles, the cardinals, and
various other whistling birds.
But on the other hand every bird has
a great many different calls of its own.
The Virginia quail’s talk is no t limited
to its name not, Bob White! Bob
White! which rings out so cheerily in
the long grasses. The mother quail
knows her baby talk and she has also
a call of three notes, a signal call to
her mate when she leaves her nest in
the brooding season. The mates use
their “scatter call” when they roam
the country in flocks, and they signal
to let each other know where they are
—Are you here? Are you here? be
sides other notes in time of trouble.
As for the gold-winged woodpeckers,
the males make the woods ring like a
party of old fox hunters. Yarrup, yar-
rup! yp! yp! Mr. Chapman, who has
especially studied what birds say, de¬
scribes also a salute, loud and hearty,
kee-yer! a meditative cuh-cuh-cuh, and
a sound “like the swishing of a willow
wand,’ weechew, weechew. They also
chuckle and complain, and the baby
gold wings call incessantly from their
high-hole nursery.
The cardinal’s call are almost num-
oerless, slow and querulous, quick and
lively, full of joy and triumph, or an¬
xious and troubled. The orioles are
known by a gay and bold whistle,
whit-tu, whit-tu! high among the
branches, but they have also a harsh
chack, chack. which they use freely
when vexed; and they are very easily
vexed or frightened, in spite of their
brave show and their joyous songs.
Catbirds have two notes of warning;
the first is a rather low cluck! cluck! as
If in a whisper; the second, in more
imminent danger, is loud and shrill and
nasal. The cuckoos also cluck-cluck,
ind in addition has a rattling call, tut-
Lut-tut, or huk-huk, and cow-cow, not
the distinct cuckoo call that the Euro¬
pean cuckoo gives, but one slightly re¬
sembling it.
The wood thrush also has various
calls. Sitting one sunset hour at the
edge of a wood I saw and heard a
wood thrush in turn gurgle, buzz, make
i metallic, brassy note, a quick, clip¬
ping call, a chatter, the usual pit, pit,
ind interspersed all these with its de¬
licious and liquid a-o-li, or come to me,
which is its characteristic song. I have
heard these sounds before, but could
not believe that they came from the
thrush’s golden throat until I caught
him in the act.
Place has its influence over song. The
melody of the Western meadowlark is
far sweeter and more subtle in sugges¬
tion than that of the Eiste n. and there
.s a difference between the notes of the
Northern and the Carolina chickadee.
There are a great many individual
variations, and these are likely to oc¬
cur in certain kinds of birds. The
meadowlarks may have a nasal call, a
rolling twitter, or a whistle, clear as a
pipe, sweet as a flute, and subject to
iny change that the caprice of the
singers suggests.
The great Carolina wren has a mul¬
titude of calls, all hard to define, all
marvelous in their sonorous, ringing
quality from such a tiny throat. As
for the chats and the mocking birds,
endowed with the double gift of mimi¬
cry and ventriloquism, one never
mows what to expect. Mr. Burroughs
compares notes made by a yellow-
breasted chat to those of a puppy, a
luck, a kingfisher, a crow, a fox and a
cat, besides others indescribable.
On the other hand, there are unex¬
pected likenesses as astonishing in
widely different birds as the difference
in birds of the same family, or the
notes of the same birds. The tiny, yel¬
low-throated vireo has more than once
leceived me into expecting the flashing
grange and black of the Baltimore ori¬
ole. The hermit thrush and the whip¬
poorwill, so unlike otherwise, have
each a habit of softly chuckling to
themselves in the dusk. See your sing¬
ers, is a counsel not to be neglected by
even an experienced ornithologist.
Then, every human listener inter¬
prets according to his own mood and
after his own fashion. A friend of
mine insists that she has heard a ball
call “Come here right quick,” with a
ringing emphasis on the last syllable.
The great crested flycatcher says
“What?” the red-eyed vireo, “Do you
near it? Do you believe it?” the white¬
ned, ‘ ‘Who are you,eh?” the yellow-
throated, “I’m here; where are you?”
the cardinal calls “Quick, quick, hur¬
ry!” the tanager, “Up, up, in the tree
top.”
All these are bird notes in man’s
words, but there are also for bird fami¬
lies an untranslatable language. King-
oirds have “a steely clatter;” wax-
wings lisp; blue jays scream; swallows
twitter, hummer birds squeak; wood¬
peckers rap; ruffled grouse drum or
peat a tattoo! owls snap their mandi¬
bles queerly, and flycatchers make
sounds like a sneeze, and like wings
cutting swiftly through the air.
Sorry for Them.
Tommy, aged 4, was very fond of
dimbing into his mother’s lap for the
rnrpose of being petted and caressed.
3ne day his mother found him gazing
it some goldfish in a globe, with a
sympathetic look on his face. “Why,
Tommy,” she asked, “what makes you
ook so solemn?”
“ ’Cause I’ sorry for them baby
ishes ” answered the little fellow.
“And why are you sorry for them?”
she asked.
“Their mamma hasn’t any lap for
hem to si t in.” was the reply *
Light From the Wind.
An electric-lighting plant has just
been Installed in West Ardsley, Eng¬
land, which is tp be run by wind
power. A large windmill drives the
dynamo, and there are storage cells
which will contain eight days’ supply
of electricity in winter and more than
a fortnight in summer, in case the
wind does not blow. As a good wind¬
mill can be bought for $200 or less,
this system seems a feasible one for
small, isolated country places.
LAWLESS SPARROWS.
They Think They Have a Right to
Take Anything They Want.
Sparrows seem to be governed by
the same impulses that cause a hun¬
gry boy to tip-toe into the pantry and
“coon” a fistful of cookies; that is, they
think a thing is right because they
want to do it. It is no uncommon thing
to see a busy little cock sparrow hop
between a horse’s hind feet and then
dart and seize a hair of the horse’s tail,
Unless interrupted the sparrow will
pull at that hair until lie gets it. Then
he will fly away to his nest in triumph.
Au English writer describes a. similar
experience with a London sparrow.
He says:
“I have just received a small story
from St. James’s Park which is inter¬
esting as a confirmation of the conclu¬
sions of science. My informant was
feeding with bread crumbs a wood pig¬
eon at his feet. One of the bird’s
feathers, an under tail cover, which
was ruffled and out of p ace, caught the
eye of a sparrow. The sparrow flew
down, seized it in his beak and pulled
its best. The feather did not yield at
once and the pigeon walked off with
offended dignity. The sparrow follow¬
ed, still holding on, and in the end flew
off triumphant with the trophy to its
nest.”
A JUDGE’S ORDER.
How Two Boys Were Punished in a
New York Court.
In New York City the other day
two boys were brought before the
Judge for stealing apples and break¬
ing the branches of the trees.
“What these boys need is a good
whipping,” said the Judge. “That’s
what my father gave me for robbing
orchards, and it made a man of me.”
“The worst of it is,” the Judge went
on, “that the law does not provide for
spanking.”
Just then his eye caught sight of
the belt around a policeman’s waist.
It was a broad belt, and it gave him
an idea.
“Take off your belt,” he said to the
policeman, and when he had it in his
hands he gave it a good slap across
his blotting pad. “Just the right
weight!” he said. “My father’s strap
was just about like this. Now I see
what to do. Although I cannot order
these naughty boys to be spanked I
can let them go on condition that
their fathers spank them. And to see
that it is done right I make it a con¬
dition that the spanking be done right
here.”
The fathers of both boys were there,
and willing to do their share, so the
lawyers cleared off one of the long ta¬
bles, and the boys, one after the other,
were laid face down on this and re¬
ceived such a spanking as they had
never had before in all their lives.
And they wont steal any more apples.
No Use To Ask.
Willie, aged 5, accompanied his
mother to a dinner party at a neigh¬
bor’s one evening, and after dessert
aad been served the little fellow asked
for another piece of pie. “Why Wil¬
lie,” said his mother, “I never knew
you to ask for a second piece of pie at
home.” “No; I knew it wasn't any
nse,” replied Willie.
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THE
THE PUZZLER.
No. 340.—Anagram.
[“Can Remember.”]
There’s a day in memory’s care,
Wholly beautiful and fair,
Wholly blest.
Never shall there come again
One so free from care and pain,
Full of rest.
No days but the past are ours.
Happy he whose past holds flowers J
Blest the place
In his past where lives a page
Which no future, to old age,
Can efface.
No. 343.—Pi For the Season.
Crembede prods on wake, gritlenen rate,
Yb rou donf semrum hispymates sanerend;
Eon form het freptec cleric fo eht yare
Nac veen triswen satcry megs eb dralpse.
No. 343.—Botanical Puzzles.
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1. The upper horizontal, of four, the
scaly fruit of the pine. The second four,
part of the daisy. The third, a large di¬
vision of a leaf or petal, as in the hepatica,
The fourth, the descending part of plants.
2. The upper horizontal, a division of
the petiole, branched on the underside of
a leaf. The lower part of the pistil, which
afterward becomes the fruit. The hollow
part of a pericarp or anther. The blu$
blossomed plant from whose stem is mam
ufactured one of our staple articles of
house furnishing.
3. The parts of the daisy. The larger
kind of glume. The most solid part of the
trunks of trees and shrubs. An aromatic
plant, producing by distillation a highly
odoriferous and pungent essential oil.
The three slants, read upward, are re¬
spectively “the sweetbriar,” the cryptog-
amous plant which bears its fruit on the
back or edge of its leaves, the plant which
grows in the arctic regions under soft skies
and upon rocks of land and sea.
No. 341.—Illustrated Acrostic.
When these animals have been rightly
guessed and the names placed one below
another in the order in which they are
numbered, the initial letters will spell the
name of a distinguished Englishman.—St.
Nicholas.
No. 344.— Transposition.
The first is round; of chiming sound
The next’s inaudible,
But plain to see, and in it we
, Laughter or scorn or pain may see—
I call it soluable.
No. 345 •—Useful In the Dining Room.
1. Nan stole six beet. 2. Yio, the rain
ceases. 3. Five runs Kit. 4. Cut pinks.
5. C. T. shook Tip. 6. Test wares. 7.
Sod stores pens. 8. Taller class. 9. Race
gives turn. 10. Seen lots made. 11. The
tall cobs. 12. Boston pleas. 13. G. N.
blows fire. 14. A shad slides.
Key to the Puzzler.
No. 331.—Hard Recipes: 1. “A bird in
the hand is worth two in the bush.” 2.
“There is many a slip between the cup and
the lip. ”
No. 332.—Anagram: Crepitation.
No. 333.—Charade: Rap-scallion.
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No. 335.—A Railroad Puzzle: The rail¬
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the empty car out of the way on the main
track to the left. Then push the car with
the load of lime up the switch to A. Now
pull both of the loaded cars down the right
branch of the switch, push them also out
of the way on the main track to the left;
then pass the engine through the switch;
do the same to the tender, and they will be
heading west. Then connect to the two
full cars' and back them up the right
branch of the switch, leaving one at A,
which must then be pulled through and left
in position on the other side. Now draw
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the feat has been accomplished.
„No. 336.—Numerical Enigma: Foreign¬
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and, looking at the tar circles, found
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the comb to the wall, and afterward
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his teeth, but found he was not strong
enough. He then seized a stone which
was near by, held the nuts on the
ground with one hand and used his
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been seen to utilize nutpicks.
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Why They Are Always Walking About
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NEWS FROM OUR COLONIES.
T is evident that Cuban
stamps are at present the
most popular of any of the
stamps coming from our
foreign possessions, despite
the fact that they are the
most numerous and cost the
least. Although the market is now well
supplied with remainders of the Spanish iss¬
ues we learn that 800,000 more „have been
brought from Cuba and placed in the hands
of dealers. Possibly this cleans out the post
office. Sines the news that all the remaining
U. S. surcharges for use in Cuba have been
destroyed by the government, collectors are
more eager than ever to obtain a set of these
stamps. U. S. dues of ic, 2c, 5c and 10c
denominations have recently been surcharged
for use upon unpaid or insufficiently paid
mail matter in Cuba, and collectors find
it more difficult to obtain these stamps than
any that have heretofore been issued as ord¬
ers have been given out that none shall be
sold to dealers. It is likely that a regular
issue of Cuban dues will soon take the place
of these stamps. A Havana firm recently
sent in an order for a lot of stamped envel¬
opes to be made of a special grade of paper,
and hence two new varieties of envelopes have
appeared, a ic and 2c printed on oriental
buff.
Wrappers and envelopes have also been
surcharged for the Philippines and collectors
expect to see before long a permanent set of
stamps and stamped envelopes for these
islands. We learn that some 30 million
Philippine stamps of the Spanish issues were
sold at auction in Manila the last part of
December. The dates of issue were from
1880 to 1898. As the number of remainders
is remarkably large we may expect to see the
price of these stamps drop in a few months,.
News also come from France that Mons.
Victor Robert, of Paris, has purchased the
entire stock of Porto Rican remainders, but
at the present writing we do not know how
extensive the stock is.
It would appear that the $11,000 worth of
stamps ordered for the small island of Guam,
with its 200 to 400 white inhabitants, was an
absurdity. However Capt. Leary has not
erred in judgment. Every stamp will be pur¬
chased and there will be calls for more. In
fact, it is said by stamp experts that there
are dealers in the United States and Europe
who would take the whole requisition at face
value provided the United States Government
would agree not to immediately duplicate the
order. Capt. Leary has already filled a few
orders and a dealer on the Pacific coast who
was fortunate enough to get a supply from
him is selling the three surcharged stamps,
ic, 2c, and 5c values for $1.50 and has
no difficulty in disposing of the stamps at this
price. Inasmuch as> the 152,000 stamps the
Post Office Department will forward to Capt.
Leary will cost the Government not to exceed
$10, it will be seen that Guam will yield to
the Government a cool $10,000 profit from
the postal receipts alone, as practically none
of the stamps will ever be called upon to do
actual piostal duty.
USED REVENUE STAMPS.
Commr. Wilson of the internal revenue
bureau is much disturbed over the fraud that
is being perpetrated through the use of wash¬
ed revenue stamps. Several arrests have
already been made in New York where the
fraud is the most prevalent, especially among
the messenger boys. Speaking on this sub¬
ject Mr. Thompson, the chief of the internal
revenue bureau in N. Y., says:
“I will venture to assert that I can go
through New or Broad St. and take into cus¬
tody the first 50 messenger boys indiscrimin¬
ately, and by searching these find at least 25
with washed or restored revenue stamps.
Some houses allow messenger boys and clerks
to affix and cancel stamps, and even if the
boys receive good stamps they often substitute
washed stamps and sell the good ones at a
discount.”
As an indication of the extent to which this
swindle is being carried on Mr. Thompson
now has $25,000 in cancelled stamps locked
up in his safe.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
To be up to the times the daily press has
had to include considerable stamp matter with
the rest of the news furnished to its readers in
recent years, and several papers have already
started local stamp clubs to further interest
their readers in philately. The Boston Journal
is probably the latest to organize such a
society. The Journal “Stamp Circle” meets
once in two weeks, elects officers and trades
and compares stamps. The president names
some one country for each meeting, and each
member brings in at least one item of infor¬
mation about the stamps of the country, pos¬
tal system, or the country itself. The talk is
further supplemented with maps and pictures
of the country under discussion.
After the 31st of next May all the stamps
of Finland will be superceded by the 1900
issue of Russian stamps.
It is estimated that at present there are 600,
000 stamp collectors in the United States and
over 1,500,000 in all quarters of the civilized
world.
The practicability of transporting the mails
over the proposed all American route to the
Yukon in Alaska is a problem yet to be solv¬
ed. One post office has already been estab¬
lished but there are so few settlers in the
interior country that more offices will probably
not? be placed there for some time to come,
notwithstanding reports to the contrary.
Letter postage in the Philippines has been
reduced to 2c.
The Portland “Telegram” thinks the I. R.
on the revenue stamps stands for “Infernal
Robbery.”
The new stamps of Mexico are beginning
to appear in the mails. They are made in
England and are the handsomest stamps that
have been used in Mexico since 1864.
St. Helena remainders to the value of $30,
000 have been offered for sale by the govern¬
ment of the island. This is expected to bring
the price of some of the earliest issues within
the reach of the average collector.
The largest auction catalogue of stamps
that has probably ever been published is the
one describing the great six-day sale of the
Hunter collection now in the hands of the
Scott Stamp & Coin Co. of New York.
The book contains over 150 large pages de¬
scribing more than 3,300 lots of stamps, and
is illustrated with six full-page half-tone illus¬
trations of some of the choicest stamps offered
for sale.
We have lately seen a copy of Vol. 1, No.
4 of Lohmeyer’s Postal Card Reporter, con¬
taining a catalogue of all postal cards and
letter cards issued since Jan. 1898, and illus¬
trated with 31 finely executed engravings. As
there will be no catalogue of postal cards
published for some time this is the only
American guide describing all the late issues
at present in existence.
The collector of shades
will have enough to do to
select all the varieties
MagMI . among the stamps of Hol¬
land, as the printers will
find it almost impossible to match the delicate
colors when taking new r impressions.
The Washington Birthday number of the
Realm, out Feb. 1st, is to be a special stamp
issue, and 9000 copies will be sent to 9000
stamp collectors. No person interested in
stamps can afford to miss seeing this great
number, which will be overflowing with stamp
bargains and reading matter of more than
ordinary interest to the collector.
The stamp season may be said to fairly be¬
gin directly after the holidays. Although the
true collector is interested in stamps all the
year round, the novice generally starts in
about the first of January and keeps up his
enthusiasm until the last of June. These six
months of the year are the busy ones for deal¬
ers.
A stamp purporting to be the rare Baltimore
5c Buchanan turned up recently in Washing¬
ton. The paper on which the stamp is printed
is voilet-brown instead of blue or white, but
in every other respect the stamp appears to be
genuine. As nothing of its history has yet
been learned no one cares to make a very
high offer for it.
While tearing down an old house in Conn,
last summer the workmen found a heap of
coins which had been lying there over a hun¬
dred years. Among the coins were five
3-pence Connecticut pieces struck in 1737 and
six Massachusetts Pine-tree shillings and six¬
pences. The lot was worth about $300.
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of
the introduction of French postage stamps,
M. Victor Robert, the well-known philatelist,
is about to donate his rare collection of 20,
000 stamps to the cabinet des Estampes of
Paris.
Three billion letters and over five hundred
million postal cards were carried through the
U. S. mails last year, and stamps to the
number of nearly five billion were purchased.
Preparations are being made for a great
philatelic exhibition in Paris in connection
with the fair which will be held from August
25 to September 10. A jury consisting of 15
prominent European philatelists has already
been chosen to award medals for the best
displays of stamps. While the exhibition is
open a Philatelic Congress will meet in Paris.
A Ladies’ Stamp Exchange is being organ¬
ized in London and males are ineligible to
membership.
It now looks as if special stamps for the
Buffalo exposition would almost certainly be
issued, as the Third Assistant Postmaster
General has given his consent to the plan in the
following words: “I know there will be ob¬
jections from stamp collectors, but that must
be expected. The stamps will be of great
benefit to the exposition as an advertising
medium and up to the present time I am in
favor of them.”
[THE REALM
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.50
.1.50
3.00
THE MARKET.
<HE new catalogue has affected the
price of U. S. stamps more severely
than those of any other country, and
consequently dealers have been obliged
to change their buying prices to conform to
the new quotations. Below we give a partial
list of about the average price- any dealer us
now willing to pay for U. S. stamps. We
intend to continue the list and add prices for
revenues, etc., in future numbers of the
Realm. , , ,,,
“Pf” stands for perforated and unpt
unperforated. Prices are for used specimens.
Per io Per ioo
1847'5c red brown,
"Franklin .1.40
1851 lc bine, Frank¬
lin, head in oval
unpf -.
3c dull red,
Wash'n unpf..*20
10c green, do
12c black, do
1855 lc blue pf.20
3c dull red pf.20
5c orange brown
Jefferson pf.4.00
10c green pf..70
12c black pf-.. .1.50
\ 24c lilac pf.8.00
U. S. and Value in Corners.
1861 lc blue.
3c rose .
10c yellow
12c black
24c red lilac.2.00
30c orange—.90
1862-66 2c black.-. Jo
5c brown.50
15 black.-.90
24c lilac.-.-50
Various Designs in Square.
1869 lc buff, Franklin 1.20
2c brown,horseman 25
Sc blue, locomotive.25
6c blue ..1.10
10c yellow.1-50
12c green.1.00
15c brown & blue 3.00
24c green & purple 10.00
30c blue & carmine 5.00
90c black & “ 28.00
Head to Left in Oval.
1870 2c red brown,
Jackson.-.25
12c dull violet.70
24c purple ....3.00
1879 2c vermilion red,
Jackson..10
3c green.3
5c blue, Taylor.6
60
10
green.... 16
.50
lin, new design.2
Same as 1872—83 Issue.
1888 4c carmine. 25
5c indigo, Garfield.. 85
30c orange brown.70
90c purple.1.80
New Design. Stamps Smaller.
(No Triangles in Upper Corners.)
1890-93 lc ultramarine.1
3c purple. 10
4c dark brown...3
5c chocolate.,.2
6c brown red.50
8c lilac.35
6c..30.00
10c. 20.00
6c purple.10
8c magenta.5
10c dark brown.4
15c dark green.35
30c orange brown.50
50c slate blue......1.00
1.00 salmon.5.00
2.00 brown red.3.50
3.00 yellow green 6.00
4.00 lake.8.00
5.00 black.10.00
Small. Triangles in Upper Corners.
1895 lc blue....1
2c carmine, no value
3c purple .. 8
4c dark brown.— 4
5c chocolate.4
6c dark red brown.10
8c puce.8
10c dark green.2
15c dark blue.45
50c orange...16
1898 5c blue.. 2
6c magenta.8
10c yellow brown.2
15c olive..:.......45
Trans-Mississippi Issue.
(Size of Columbus Stamps*.)
1898 lc dark yellow green.10
2c copper red.3
4c orange.5
5c dark blue.10
8c violet brown.,...12
10 gray violet.10
50 sage green.90
OFFICIAL STAMPS.
lc—
2c
8c ...
6c ...
10c.
12c.
15c
24c.
30c.
90c
Interior. Color, vermilion.
.50
...50
.35
.85
. 1.00
.80
. 1.00
1.50
.1.50
.5.00
Justice. Color, purple
•10c green..
.2
lc.
.3.00
15c indigo.
....... 85
2c..
.6.00
30c black.
1.20
3c.
.1.50
90c orange.1.00
6c.
.2.00
Columbian Issue.
10c..
.6.00
1893 lc deep blue.
.6
12c...
.5.00
2c violet.
.2
15.
....12.00
3c green.
.-70
24c.
.34.00
4c ultramarine.
.25
30c.
.40.00
5c chocolate.
.40
90c.
.75.00
Navy. Color, blue.
lc.2.50
2c..1.00
3c.40
6c.1.00
10c.4.00
12c. 3.00
15c. 6.00
24. . 8.00 •
30.6.00
Post Office. Color, black.
lc....
2c.
3c.
6c.
10c...
12c..
15c..
24c.
30c...
90c..
lc....
3c.
6c.
7c.
10c..
lc....
2c.
3c.
6c.
7c.
10c..
12c..
15c...
24c..
.80
.50
17
6c pink.-.
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lc.
.7.00
30c.
15c red orange.:
25
2c...
.2.00
90c.
90c carmine.4.50
3c.
...50
1882 5c yellow brown,
6..
.1.50
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Garfield ..
.20
10c.
.12.00
2c...
lc blue.
.3
12c.
.16.00
3c....
3c green.
.3
15c..
..7.00
6c...
10c brown.
.7
24c.
.8.00
7c...
1883 2c red brown, Washington 2
30.
...9.00
10c.
4c blue green.
.10
Executive.
Color, carmine.
12c
1887 2c green.
.1
lc.
.16.00
15...
3c vermilion.
15
2c.
.16.00
24c
lc ultramarine, Frank-
3c.
.13.00
30c
.30
.2.70
.1.50
.2.00
.2.00
.2.00
...4.00
State. Color, green.
.5.00
.1.50
..1.50
.6.00
.5.00
Treasury. Color, brown.
.30
.20
..50
.18
.3.00
.....50
...30
.50
.8.00
.50
.1.20
War. Color, rose red.
...08
90c.
.08
1.08
.5.00
.40
....35
.40
.35
.35
. 2.00
.30
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